january 31

Posted by sydney on Jan 31st, 2009
  • 1789: January 31, 1789 – Farmer Knight’s wheat of a beautiful colour.  Children play at hop-scotch.  Rain in Jan. 4 inc. 48h.  I now see, that after the greatest droughts have exhausted the wells, & streams, & ponds, four or five inches of rain will completely replenish them.
  • 1788: January 31, 1788 – Tubbed half an hog, weighing 8 score: put half a bush. of salt, & two ounces of salt petre.  The pork was well trod into the tub, & nicely stowed.
  • 1787: January 31, 1787 – Small frost, sun, still, & pleasant.  Beautiful dappled sky.
  • 1786: January 31, 1786 – Mr Richardson left us.
  • 1785: January 31, 1785 – The wind blowed-off the fox’s tail.
  • 1780: January 31, 1780 – The cabbage-plants that were to have stood the winter seem to be killed: lettuces under the fruit-wall are damaged.  Later note: but they have all recovered.
  • 1776: January 31, 1776 – Below zero!! 32 deg. below the freezing point.  At eleven it rose to 16 1/2.  Rime.  A most unusual degree of cold for S.E. England.
  • 1774: January 31, 1774 – The water above the tap in R. Knight’s cellar at Faringdon.  the land-springs begin to break-out on the downs beyond Andover  A certain token that they rich corn vales must suffer.
  • 1769: January 31, 1769 – Sowed the meadows with ashes.

Notes:

Curing pork with salt from an 1844 householdery book; indepth article on the history of curing pork with some notes on saltpeter. The ‘fox’ that lost his tail was on White’s weathervane according to Walter Johnson’s note on this entry. The thermometer reading of of ‘below zero’ in Farenheit is around -20 degrees Celsius. According to the Met Office, the coldest temperature ever recorded in England was -15 F, or -26 C, in Shropshire, in 1982. Notes:

Curing pork with salt from an 1844 householdery book; indepth article on the history of curing pork with some notes on saltpeter. The ‘fox’ that lost his tail was on White’s weathervane according to Walter Johnson’s note on this entry. The thermometer reading of of ‘below zero’ in Farenheit is around -20 degrees Celsius. According to the Met Office, the coldest temperature ever recorded in England was -15 F, or -26 C, in Shropshire, in 1982.

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